Ants in pot plants?
Question:I live in Sth Glos England & have a problem in my small garden with pesky ants living in my pot plants, especially pieris & rhodedendrons.Please help as I have been planting them in the garden,in winter I fear the frost!! Thank u all u experts
Answers:
try to find a pest control concentrate
use a pyrithrin(safe for plants)
mix in a bucket..to recommended rates
then water pot plants slowly untll liquid runs out the bottom of pot ...
i don't know the products u can get there but look for active ingredence like
pyhrithrin , bifenthrin ,deltametrin,fipronil,chlorpyr ifos or permethrin
get some ant powder
Ant powder, or Nipon gel.
I usually bury some spriggs of Rosemary in the compost when putting stuff in pots - apparently they don't like the scent and I very rarely get ants in my pots! (Slugs now, that's a DIFFERENT story!)
I also find that keeping the pots well watered seems to stop ant invasion as they don't get the soil dry enough & undisturbed for long enough to move in.
Ants in pot plants can be troublesome. Try submerging the entire pot in a tub or bucket of water and spray the ants as they flee their submerged housing. You have to also get the queen ant, she only emerges after a while. The queen ant is much larger and longer and has a thicker body than the other ants. So take some time to get rid of this problem. An interesting link to check out about ants, although the bucket method was not suggested, but I know it works:
http://www.angliangardener.co.uk/green_u...
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